New Library World: Volume 75 Issue 10
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Off the cuff
IT IS CHEATING a bit to start off by seizing a sentence which you haven't read yet—since it occurs later in this issue, in Michael Pearce's virile comment on page 213—and using it…
Comment
PETER BROPHY, PETER JACKAMAN, FT BELL, MIKE PEARCE, CN EASTCOTT, BRENDA WHITETHE COMMENT by Don Revill in the August issue of NEW LIBRARY WORLD raises a number of interesting points. The allocation of library book funds between departments or between site…
People and events
UP AT BOSTON SPA they've decided to try to change the colloquial abbreviation used for ‘The British Library, Lending Division’ from the current ‘BLL’—which Donald Urquhart…
Industrial library news
ALAN ARMSTRONGAslib celebrates its 50th birthday this autumn. Its director Leslie Wilson very kindly agreed to answer Alan Armstrong's questions about the Association and its future.
A time to laugh and a time to die
ROBERT SHALLOWDURING THE 1930's The New Yorker carried a series of pieces by Leonard Q Ross (Leo C Rosten). The theme was the mangling and mauling of the English language by a recent immigrant…